TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Anthea Gianniotes, Development Services Director
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: April 8, 2025
Title
ORDINANCE NO. 02-25: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, ADOPTING A SMALL-SCALE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT REDESIGNATING A PARCEL OF LAND MEASURING APPROXIMATELY 4.27 ACRES LOCATED AT 975 SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, FROM CONGRESS AVENUE MIXED USE TO COMMERCE PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE “COMMUNITY PLANNING ACT”, FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 163.3187; PROVIDING A CONFLICTS CLAUSE AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. (FIRST READING)
Body
Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Consider Ordinance No. 02-25, a privately initiated request for a small-scale Land Use Map Amendment from Congress Avenue Mixed Use (CMU) to Commerce (CMR) for the 4.27 acre property located at 955-975 South Congress Avenue.
Body
Background:
The subject request is to amend the land use designation of a 4.27-acre parcel located at 955-975 South Congress Avenue from CMU to CMR. The request is being reviewed and processed concurrently with a rezoning request from Mixed Residential, Office, and Commercial (MROC) to Mixed Industrial and Commercial (MIC).
This property was previously designated with a land use of CMR, and was re-designated to CMU in 2007 as part of a City-initiated land use map amendment for the corridor (Ordinance No. 38-06).
The property is developed with two commercial/office/warehouse buildings, which were established under the previous CMR land use and MIC zoning. As a result, the property owner has experienced challenges to sustain and attract businesses that are permitted under the CMU land use and MROC zoning district. Many of the established uses were deemed nonconforming uses after the 2007 rezoning from MIC to MROC, and LDR Section 1.3....
Click here for full text